Alt text: A rocket engine attached to a train. The rocket is labeled “AI” and the train labeled “Enshittification train”.

  • @Carmakazi
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    635 months ago

    AI’s most successful accomplishment is going to be its ability to parse the astronomical amounts of personal data corporations and governments have been collecting for the last 20 years. Enshittification and the identification, surveillance, and targeting of dissidents.

    • @PseudorandomNoise
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      365 months ago

      parse the astronomical amounts of personal data corporations and governments have been collecting for the last 20 years

      Always the plan, funnily enough. They didn’t necessarily know what they’d need the data for, just knew it was valuable and should be sucked up and saved until the opportunity presented itself.

    • @[email protected]
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      85 months ago

      Check out the latest episode of the excellent podcast “Search Engine”… Very much relevant and very much terrifying.